High Resolution is WAY better, for this backgrounds, and even UIs, without break the game style of course.
He stoles it didn't he precious? He stoles our betases! But we will get it back, oh yes precious, we will.
I think they're not going to release the beta until we all celebrate Chucklefish with a massive vuvuzuela party.
Actually if they are doing an exclusive at that convention at the end of august that suggests that the game wont be released til at least after that event. It wouldn't be much of an exclusive otherwise would it? Get ready for at least another four weeks of distracting yourself and checking for daily updates.
Are you guys going to add natural/artificial moons or satellites to the planets, and maybe even make home worlds for certain species look the part. Like for Floran planets have there natural satellites be overgrown with plant life or glitch worlds have giant industrialized moons. I don't know about you, but i think this would be a pretty awesome touch to the planets as well as give the player a kind of hint on who lived there once as I would imagine that they all would leave some kind of trademark look to what was once their territory.
Chucklefish will not bow down to terrorism. It's an exclusive public demonstration according to the official website. But hey, you're probably right.